Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla described as disgraceful a U.S. measure to prohibit Skyway Enterprises and IBC Airways from providing humanitarian flights to Cuba.
Rodríguez Parrilla stated via Twitter: "The new State Department measure to ban humanitarian cargo flights to Cuba is a disgraceful act; the Trump administration is reinforcing punishment of Cuban families in both countries until its very last moment," adding to the almost 200 sanctions imposed on our country over the last year.
The two U.S. airlines requested permits from the Department of Transportation to conduct humanitarian flights between Miami and Havana, a request that was denied, citing the blockade’s criminal, interventionist regulations, according to Sputnik.
More than 30 airlines have made formal requests to land at Cuban airports, upon learning of the reopening of international terminals in the country.
According to Brigadier General Armando Luis Daniel López, president of the Institute of Civil Aviation of Cuba (IACC), before the closure of terminals due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 60 companies were flying to the island, and are now gradually beginning to return.
Prensa Latina recalled that on March 23, 2020, Cuba cancelled commercial air operations, including charter and regular flights, which resumed on October 15 at all airports except for Havana's, which did so on November 15, although 1,380 humanitarian, cargo, medical collaboration, evacuation and other contingency flights have been received during the period.
